Academic research on vulnerable c++ code snippet

[JafarAkhondali]

Dear James Andersen,
We are a group of Academic researchers. We are analyzing vulnerable C++ code snippets migrated from StackOverflow to GitHub. Our research will be published in Academic publications and will not be used in any Industrial application.
We noted a vulnerable code snippet in your repository that was most likely copied from Stack Overflow. The vulnerability exists in this source code file of your repository.

Please verify our report here with regards to the above vulnerability to assist you.
Link to report with four questions for you related to the vulnerability (should not take more than 5 minutes to answer).

Here is a summary of the vulnerable code snippet:

Description:

When we use null terminator (\0) as splitter argument, function wouldn't able to handle it since it'll parse \0 as end of string.
example:
split<wstring>("PART1\x00PART2", "\x00");
it returns PART1 while it should return both PART1 and PART2.

Mitigation:

C++ Reference(with code snippet)

References:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/data

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Please verify our report here with regards to the above vulnerability to assist you.
Link to report with four questions for you related to the vulnerability (should not take more than 5 minutes to answer).

Sincerely yours,
Morteza Verdi, Shiraz university, E-mail: [email protected]
Jafar Akhondali, Shiraz university, E-mail: [email protected]
Ashkan Sami, Shiraz university, E-mail: [email protected]
Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: [email protected], website: http://www.khomh.net/
Gias Uddin, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: [email protected], website: https://giasuddin.github.io
Alireza Karami motlagh, Shahid Chamran University, E-mail: [email protected]

[JafarAkhondali]

Hi,
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